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Pirates drop points

Orlando Pirates dropped valuable points in their chase for the Absa Premiership title, drawing 0-0 with Black Leopards at the Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday night.

The result means the Buccaneers move up to third on 35 points, seven adrift of leaders Ajax Cape Town. Leopards remain bottom, but cut the gap to 15th placed Jomo Cosmos to two points.

Peter Mponda had an early effort at goal for Leopards, but his long range drive went wide of goal.

Pirates' first shot in anger only came in the 26th minute, with Teko Modise putting his drive off target.

With both teams struggling to string together good attacking moves, it was little surprise that the first half ended goalless.

Ten minutes after the break Modise had a sight of goal in the penalty area but he put his shot wide of Mashudu Mamphitha's left hand upright.

Pirates mentor Owen Da Gama sent on Irvin Mhlambi and Joseph Makhanya with just over 20 minutes to play, but it was Leopards who almost broke the deadlock in the 77th minute, as Senzo Meyiwa was forced into a brilliant save to deny Robert Ng'ambi.

Makhanya soon fashioned a shot from 12 yards out, but his effort went wide of goal.

Pirates were expected to wallop leopards by a big margin but they were pathetic infront of goal although they dominate the game and its this inconsistency that will eventualy cost them the league. Teko is briliant but hes not God and the soone ODG rest him the better it will be during the last 3-5 game coz i c this league going to the wire.

Anonymous

posted: 10:43 pm

All we as bucs supoters wish khosi 2win so as we can hold 3rd position period.U dont play bad just bad luk. I'll borow some luk.

Anonymous

posted: 10:49 pm

PIRATES MUST GO OUT AND BUY ONE BIG STRIKER,ONE BIG HOLDING MIDFIELDER AND TWO BIG DEFENDERS.THESE MUST BE QUALITY PLAYERS AND NOT AVERAGE LIKE THE ONES THEY PURCHASED RECENTLY.THIS IS A BIG TEAM AND DOES NOT NEED QUANTITY,BUT ONLY QUALITY

Anonymous

posted: 11:38 pm

Anywhere well done guys, you can not win everything,keep up the good performance.concerntrate on the next game,chelsea and manchester has lost their cup games, so worryless MAbhakabhaka, we will soon turn the tables.

Anonymous

posted: 01:26 am

but for pirates this doesnt come to ur side daily like chiefs..if it was chiefs i think they would have written chiefs won 1 point..gone are the days that i used to make noice about chiefs dominance in SA.

Anonymous

posted: 03:38 am

The less said about this unfortunate turn of events to Pirates the better. It is such a good result to the struggling BL. I know ODG always says he is not looking to winning the league, yes, not with this kind of results.

Anonymous

posted: 07:38 am

I think O.G.D must blame himself 'cause he thinks the is easy road to the tittle, he is a joke. He saw on Wednesday that the best way to win is to have innovative people or players inside the pitch but he doesn't do that. What they do inside the pitch is what they practice "Going round and Circle" is their type of practice, but they are still learning. YOU DESERVE THAT DRAW BUCS"

Anonymous

posted: 10:21 am

ODG IS TRYING 2 FAIL US D LEAGUE Y DO HE CONTINUE KEEP ON SITTING ON D BENCH WHILE HE SEES DAT HE IS SUPPOSED 2 GIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO D GUYS ON THE FIELD AND HE MST GIVE TEKO A WELL DESERVED BREAK ON D NEXT 2-3 MATCHES ESPECIALLY ON D NEDBANK CUP GAMES SO DAT HE WILL RECHARGE HIS BATTERY 4 D REMAINING LEAGUE GAMES ALSO HE MST PUT MASEHE ON D STANDS AS WE ALL SAW DAT WE CANT SCORE WITHOUT WALAZA SO ODG MST TRY 2 FIND 2 BIG QUALITY STRIKERS AND BRING BACK KAMWENDO ON D MIDDLE AND ALSO RE-CALL NAPELEON & PLS COACH START WIT BUCUANE,WALAZA & MSHANGAZIKE ON D NEXT LEAGUE MATCH WE NEED MORE FIRE POWER UPFRONT LASTLY 2 ODG PLS FIND AN ASSISTANT 4 URSELF WE NEED 2 WIN D LEAGUE IT'S NOW OR NEVER PLS MAKES US PROUD DNT B STURBON DIS IS OUR TEAM"UP THE BUCS"

Anonymous

posted: 10:50 am

it is time da gama stopped the chop and changing if he is serious about achieving anything. good football alone doesnt win anything...ask papic.

Anonymous

posted: 10:53 am

nkosana bro. it is not the body size that matter but the size of the heart! the question one need to ask is: are pirates ready to die for their team? do they have heart big enough to wanna do it for their supporters???

There is no way ODG will win the league as he is very defensive and has average plyers as there are not more than 5 players atb Pirates who can stand up and be counted, shame on my team, its hurting

Anonymous

posted: 01:39 pm

Pirates management must sell, 15 players next season and only buy 6 very good players, otherwise they are going nowhere, ODG have code 8 licence and he is driving extra heavy, he must stop analysing opponents before the game because the opponent would improve on their weekneses, we only interested on the win not the analysis, he must rest Chenene and Modise, play Mashaba and Kamwendo now.

Anonymous

posted: 04:14 pm

Where are you going to buy strikers from? You claim that South Africa have enough strikers that they should not be importing players from other countries, shame on you. This is a country without stikers material in soccer, look whta is happening in the league, and also judge from history. If there were good strikers here, Chamanga could not be top goal scorer so far, and Katongo could not be top goal scorer half way in the league, just swallow your pride and xenophobic attitudes and import talent, please, if you want to see goals, the league matches will be full of draws

Anonymous

posted: 04:15 pm

Where are you going to buy strikers from? You claim that South Africa have enough strikers that they should not be importing players from other countries, shame on you. This is a country without stikers material in soccer, look what is happening in the league, and also judge from history. If there were good strikers here, Chamanga could not be top goal scorer so far, and Katongo could not be top goal scorer half way in the league, just swallow your pride and xenophobic attitudes and import talent, please, if you want to see goals, otherwise the league matches will be full of draws

Anonymous

posted: 08:19 am

Orlando Pirates must stop trusting players like Paulus Masehe bacause they have never produce any good results for us so please coach wake up and start your game with players like Joseph Makhanya cause we need players with speed.Tico Tico is never a player I am looking forward to have at Orlando Pirates he is the slowest path I can travel with.So coach get speed and height please.

Anonymous

posted: 09:01 am

Okay Bucs never drop miximum points, is still early to perdict the team to win tiltle, Leopards fighting regation and bucs fighting the to win, therefore draw is the best result to both teams.

Anonymous

posted: 09:37 am

I am impressed with the way Pirates are playing but at this moment we need goals!!

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